...Ariana Torres Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the adoption of two categories of agricultural technologies among beginning farmers (10 years or less of experience) operating in the specialty crops industry. A secondary goal is to characterize the beginning farmers' population...

... in explaining whether farms engaged in direct marketing, perhaps suggesting the importance of the local supply chain. Beginning farmers Farm financial performance Local foods Local foods supply chain Local marketing channels An aspect of contemporary agricultural supply chains is the development...

...Ani L. Katchova; Robert Dinterman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the financial performance and stress of beginning farmers in the USA with emphasis on the agricultural downturn experienced since 2013. Design/methodology/approach Using the US Department of Agriculture’s...

... the USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), the author constructs a synthetic panel of data consisting of age cohorts of beginning farmers and follow them over time. Baseline financial information for the farm income statement and balance sheet is examined in 1999 and again in 2014 for each...

... and beginning farmers are known to US Department of Agriculture. Design/methodology/approach In addition to a linked-farm approach (linking farms over time), a cohort approach (farms that started operating in the same year) is used to determine exit rates conditional on the number of years a farm has been...

... on historic production, beginning farmers tend to receive lower levels of direct payments and hence these payments might impact beginning farmers differently than more experienced farmers. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of direct payments on liquidity and repayment capacity...